The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

On a dark night with no moon and heavily overcast skies on Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was one of 11 cruisers and ...

The U.S. Navy is rapidly retiring its Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, a move that is creating a dilemma between modernizing the fleet and maintaining current firepower. -These powerful ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

The US Navy wasted almost $2 billion on a failed effort to upgrade its cruisers, a watchdog report found. Four Ticonderoga-class vessels in the program were decommissioned before refits were ...

The US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers were the crown jewels of its surface fleet for three decades. The first warships to deploy the Aegis combat system – a sophisticated ...

The US Navy wasted almost $2 billion on a failed effort to upgrade its cruisers, a watchdog report found. Four Ticonderoga-class vessels in the program were decommissioned before refits were ...

Seaman Kenneth Wood, aboard the guided-missile cruiser Hue City. (MC2 Matthew R. Cole/Navy) The U.S. Navy has wasted $1.84 billion since 2015 on rehabilitating its Ticonderoga class guided-missile ...

The guided-missile cruiser Gettysburg underway in 2013, before it began a lengthy and expensive modernization effort. (Navy) Back in 2015, the guided-missile cruiser Gettysburg began a lengthy ...

The US's Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, at left, is now rivaled, if not topped, by China's Type 055 "Renhai" cruiser. Lt.j.g Samuel Hardgrove/US Navy and Sun Zifa/China News Service via ...

China’s military on Tuesday claimed a U.S. guided missile cruiser "trespassed" in its waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, though the U.S. Navy decried the claims as "false ...

The U.S. Navy will decommission all of its guided missile cruisers by 2027. The first cruiser, the Atlanta, entered service in 1884. The exit of the Navy’s cruisers means that the most powerful ...